More practically, I note this from Cockroach's document on "Deploy > Recommended Production Settings": "When replicating across datacenters, it’s recommended t

More practically, I note this from Cockroach's document on "Deploy > Recommended Production Settings": "When replicating across datacenters, it’s recommended to use datacenters on a single continent to ensure performance (inter-continent scenarios will improve in performance soon). Also, to ensure even replication across datacenters, it’s recommended to specify which datacenter each node is in using the --locality flag. If some of your datacenters are much farther apart than others, specifying multiple levels of locality (such as country and region) is recommended." In short, IIUC, even _planetary_ deployment doesn't come for free (yet). Perhaps I'm just not well-enough versed yet in how people deal with globally-distributed databases, but I'd love to see the docs dig into this a bit more: practical limits of cluster deployment, recommended strategies and tools (if any) to replicate data between clusters, etc.